You'll know if it's the TOB if you put your toe lightly on the clutch and the sound goes away. had it happen to me too with 60k miles. changed clutch and put on new one, good as new.
While this is true, all your doing is adding more wear to the clutch, and is not a recomended temporary fix. Haven't you ever heard that you should never drice yoru car with your foot on the clutch pedal? Thats essentially what you are doing here.
It's not to bad. I would recomend having someone help you (especially if you have never done any sort of work like this yourself before). You can either do it the hard way by taking the engine out and working at it from the front, or if you can jack the car up high enough, remove the driveshaft, transmission, and then the clutch with the TOB.
+ would a tob be a light tick or nock comingi right by where the clutch is... it happens in any gear even neutral while its rolling i think, and it goes away as soon as i push the clutch in... It also has a quiet chirp while its just sitting and as soon as i push the clutch in even just a hair it goes away
Mine "chirped" as I like to call it. It would do so in any gear + N, and it would accelerate with the RPM. Im almost certain that it's your TOB by the way your describing it.
I would definitely change out your clutch as well if you have a high amount of miles, and since you will be going through all that work anyway. You can get a decent clutch (almost every clutch kit out there will include a TOB) for less than $200, where if you try to just buy a TOB (I had trouble finding one so I would have had to go to Ford for it) at $70? I think.
I've got a RAM in mine, its the only clutch other than a oem replacement ive ever had in the car. Works ok for me. You'll want to resurface the flywheel while you're down there.
Got a RAM as well. Really good price for the amount of hp/tq its rated at. I got mine an a special from AM and it was for a V6 so considerable cheaper.
Do yourself a favor and buy a Ford OEM TOB no matter what clutch you go with, especially spec. Most aftermarket clutches come with shitty TOB's. I recently put a Spec stage 2+ in my gt and the TOB made noise from day 1. I have a spec stage 2+ in the mach and it started making noise @ about 25,000 miles.
The install is fairly simple but it is a lot of work.
Well I must agree with that...I mentioned somewhere on here I believe that my TOB is already making noise again, but I believed that it was because something else was wrong causing my TOB's to go out, rather than my TOB being s POS..... Nice to know now....
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